Monday, Good morning world.
From the late 1830�s through the 1850�s, using millstones and a fan to push skyward the result, (The machine was invented by a person named Wood) one of America�s more famous philosophers, in a family business, made a product that could include bayberry wax and spermacetti. (It is not a candle). Apparently independently rediscovering a technology used by a German company, he by the 1840�s produced the best of these�even better than those of the British and French who were considered the best at this owing to geoglogy.
He called himself a teacher, surveyor, carpenter among other occupations. But his landlord wrote that his "fault" was ��he had no ambition.�
Who was this person